Ignoring JFK’s Warning on Russia
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/12/01/ignoring-jfks-warning-on-russia/
A history of U.S. bullying — from a broken promise not to expand NATO to deceit over Minsk — shows that U.S. leaders since the Cold War’s end have ignored J.F.K.’s dire warning not to humiliate a nuclear power. By…
#Politics #AmericanEmpire #Analysis #ColdWar #Commentary #History #SovietUnion #Wikileaks #BillClinton #BorisYeltsin #DonaldTrump #GeorgeH.w.Bush #JoeBiden #JoeLauria #JohnF.Kennedy #MarcoRubio #SergeiLavrov #VladimirPutin #WilliamBurns

#NationalizeBigOil
#PolluterPaysPrinciple

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...price shock, the war in #Ukraine and the destruction of the Nordstream pipeline let energy prices peak in the #EU. Another example was the major disruption of global supply lines by the #Covid-19 #pandemic.

And even a planned "#ShockTherapy" does not bode well for many economies, here's a look at the disastrous #Russian 1991 example of #BorisYeltsin:

https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/110486678385992086

Also, (sudden) price hikes usually hit...

@forthy42 @Bellingen

Secret Documents from the 1990s: How Close Was Russia to NATO Membership?

US President Bill Clinton sincerely wanted to bring Russia into the NATO fold.

European countries, though, were strictly opposed, particularly Germany.

Previously classified documents from the 1990s reveal German Chancellor Helmut Kohl's two-pronged strategy.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20250827-secret-documents-from-the-1990s-how-close-was-russia-to-nato-membership?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#Russia #NATO #ColdWar #Europe #Germany #BillClinton #HelmutKohl #BorisYeltsin #History #Longread

NATO: The Most Dangerous Organization
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/07/15/nato-the-most-dangerous-organization/
By the time of its out-of-theater intervention in Afghanistan, it became clear that NATO now had the ability and permission to operate as the policeman of the U.S.-led order. By Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research The North Atlantic Treaty Organization…
#Politics #Afghanistan #Africa #AmericanEmpire #Analysis #China #ColdWar #Colonialism #Commentary #Europe #EuropeanUnion #Germany #History #HumanRights #IncomeInequality #Intelligence #International #Italy #Libya #Militarism #Nato #SovietUnion #UnitedNations #BarackObama #BorisYeltsin #CentralIntelligenceAgency(c.i.a.)) #CentralTreatyOrganizationCento #DonaldTrump #GeorgeKennan #GeorgeW.Bush #HastingsLionelIsmay #JoeBiden #U.n.Charter

Vijay Prashad: NATO Is the United States
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/06/19/vijay-prashad-nato-is-the-united-states/
As NATO’s secretary general urges member nations to “shift to a wartime mindset,” now more than ever it is clear that this aggressive alliance poses a threat to peace on a global scale. By Vijay Prashad Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research …
#Politics #Commentary #Germany #Libya #Nato #Yugoslavia #BorisYeltsin #CampaignForNuclearDisarmament(cnd) #GermanInstitutesOfPeaceAndConflictResearch #Maritime #MaritimeAndTransportWorkers #MatthewWhitaker #NationalUnionOfRail #NatoSecretaryGeneralMarkRutte #PresidentDonaldTrump #Serbia #VijayPrashad

The public breakdown between Trump and Musk highlights a familiar pattern among authoritarian leaders: they elevate allies only to discard them when their loyalty falters or their influence threatens the throne. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/06/12/world/lonely-authoritarians/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #donaldtrump #elonmusk #vladimirputin #borisberezovsky #borisyeltsin #josefstalin #nikitakhrushchev #leonidbrezhnev #receptayyiperdogan

JFK AU at 62: ‘Don’t Humiliate a Nuclear Power’
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/06/12/jfk-au-at-62-dont-humiliate-a-nuclear-power/
Sixty-two years ago this week, John F. Kennedy broke with the Cold War in his American University speech and warned against humiliating a nuclear weapons power, words that resonate more than ever, writes Joe Lauria. By Joe Lauria Special to…
#Politics #AmericanEmpire #Analysis #BidenAdministration #Britain #ColdWar #Commentary #Europe #ForeignPolicy #Germany #History #Militarism #Nato #Russia #SovietUnion #Ukraine #BillClinton #BorisYeltsin #GeorgeH.w.Bush #JoeBiden #JoeLauria #JohnF.Kennedy #SergeiLavrov #VladimirPutin #WilliamBurns

WATCH: Joe Lauria — Trump Defies Rational Analysis
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/06/08/watch-joe-lauria-trump-defies-rational-analysis/
Donald Trump is somebody very hard to define and to describe because we’ve never seen anything like him, the editor of Consortium News told Turkish journalist Tunç Akkoç’.   TRANSCRIPT Tunç Akkoç’: Hello everyone. Today we have a very special…
#Politics #AmericanEmpire #Analysis #Commentary #Disinformation #FreeSpeech #Gaza #History #Intelligence #Israel #JoeLauria #Media #MiddleEast #Militarism #Nato #PressFreedom #Russia #Turkey #U.s. #U.s.Congress #Ukraine #Vietnam #AzovBattalion #BarackObama #BorisYeltsin #ChelseaManning #Cia #DanielEllsberg #DavidBenGurion #DonaldTrump #EdwardSnowden #Ergenekon #Fbi #FethullahGülen #HarryTruman #HillaryClinton #Jfk #JfkAssassination #JohnBolton #JulianAssange #KeithKellogg #MarcoRubio #MikePompeo #MyLai #NewYorkCity #Osce #OttomanEmpire #PentagonPapers #RichardNixon #SeymourHersh #SykesPicot #TunçAkkoç’ #ViktorYanukovych #VladimirPutin #Watergate #YaseminCongar

Blair & Major Reassured Russia About NATO
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/06/05/blair-major-reassured-russia-about-nato/
Two British prime ministers recognised Moscow’s fears over NATO expanding in eastern Europe — a major cause of the Ukraine war — files show, Mark Curtis reports. By Mark Curtis Declassified UK Declassified British files shed further light on the…
#Politics #Nato #Russia #Ukraine #UnitedKingdon #UntilThisDayHistoricalPerspectivesOnTheNews #BorisYeltsin #ForeignMinisterYevgenyPrimakov #MarkCurtis #NatoEnlargement #NatoExpansion #PresidentVladimirPutin #PrimeMinisterJohnMajor #PrimeMinisterTonyBlair #YevgenyPrimakov

Trump’s Homework on Russia
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/01/28/trumps-homework-on-russia/
As Donald Trump says he wants to end the war in Ukraine, Edward Lozansky recommends some background reading on the roots of the conflict. By Edward Lozansky Special to Consortium News U.S. President Donald Trump and his special envoy for…
#Politics #Books #Commentary #Nato #Russia #TrumpAdministration #Ukraine #UntilThisDayHistoricalPerspectivesOnTheNews #AbmTreaty #BorisYeltsin #E.WayneMerry #EdwardLozansky #GeneralKeithKellogg #NationalSecurityArchive #PresidentDonaldTrump #PresidentGeorgeH.w.Bush #ScottHorton

[17:37] Even after 25 years in power, war is still all Putin can offer Russia

When Boris Yeltsin suddenly resigned as Russia’s first post-Communist president on New Year’s Eve, 1999, his country seemed to be spiralling downhill into economic and political disintegration.

https://www.independent.ie/world-news/even-after-25-years-in-power-war-is-still-all-putin-can-offer-russia/a417791077.html

#BorisYeltsin #Russia #first #post_Communist #NewYear’sEve,1999

[01:01] Reynolds told that Yeltsin 'might be worse for wear'

Various excuses were offered for Russian president Boris Yeltsin's no-show at Shannon Airport in 1994, he was "indisposed", he was resting after a tiring flight and his bodyguards were too frightened to wake him. But, it was generally accepted that he was drunk.

https://www.rte.ie/news/2024/1227/1487070-state-papers-boris-yeltsin/

#Russian #BorisYeltsin's #ShannonAirport #1994

Newly declassified: #BillClinton's Administration fucked up #BorisYeltsin's #Russia by conflating #democracy & #freeMarket based on advice from #Harvard grads rather than ground realities from Wayne Merry of the US Embassy, who warned that Russia was not capable of "rapid market reform" and "that an intrusive Western effort to alter the economy against the wishes of the Russian people can exhaust…goodwill… and help recreate an adversarial relationship"

via @brentsleeper
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/12/russia-news-ukraine-cold-war-foreign-policy-history.html

Listening to audiobook THE FUTURE IS HISTORY: HOW TOTALITARIANISM RECLAIMED RUSSIA (2017), by Masha Gessen

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masha_Gessen

#MashaGessen #Russia #Book #Audiobook #Libby #Library #PublicLibrary #BorisYeltsin #Soviet #USSR #MikhailGorbachev #Putin #VladimirPutin

Watching the debate between The Delusional and The Demented unfold made me miss this video:

#borisyeltsin #billclinton #funny #biden #trump #uselections

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkZeU4U9EyQ

Listening to THE MAN WITHOUT A FACE: THE UNLIKELY RISE OF VLADIMIR PUTIN (2012) - Masha Gessen

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Without_a_Face:_The_Unlikely_Rise_of_Vladimir_Putin

#MashaGessen #Putin #VladimirPutin #Russia #Biography #Book #Audiobook #Libby #Library #PublicLibrary #BorisYeltsin #Chechnya

Mendras, who has written several books on #Russia, said #Putin has managed to stay in power since 1999 — when he was appointed the Prime Minister of Russia by then-President #BorisYeltsin — using "more and more political violence," as well as conflict and wars. They include five wars in #Chechnya, #Georgia, #Donbas, #Syria, and #Ukraine

Putin needs to keep Russia in a 'permanent' state of war to stay in power, expert says
https://www.businessinsider.com/putin-paranoid-keep-russia-permanent-war-stay-in-power-2024-2

Since Vladimir Putin cannot cede power and still protect his wealth, he needed to find a way to “sell” his permanent rule to the people. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2024/01/17/world/putins-search-usable-past/?utm_content=bufferb89e9&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn #commentary #worldnews #russia #vladimirputin #borisyeltsin #kgb

Boris Yeltsin told us during our friendly meetings (and more than once) that from the very beginning he promised not to interfere in the affairs of the new president (Putin). He is leaving - and that's it. There will be no criticism of the new president from his side. Yeltsin kept his word. Even when he didn't like what Putin was doing, he tried not to interfere in anything.

#MikhailKasyanov
(Former Prime Minister of Russia 2000-04)

#russia #history #politics #BorisYeltsin

@Jeramee @Renegade_GDI@mastodon.world @RadicalGraffiti

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"...purchasing hundreds of thousands of #vouchers,...By all accounts, many of these enterprises were shockingly #undervalued — and those who were able to get large chunks of lucrative enterprises became fabulously wealthy in a very short period of time."

And then things got completely of hand:

"By 1995, #BorisYeltsin..."